![]() ![]() ![]() Even then, it wasn’t easy, as the Lakers took the Suns to OT at America West Arena in the deciding Game 5. Then came Paul Westphal’s famous “we’re going to win the series” speech. After a season-long wave of momentum, the Valley was completely flattened by the Suns losing the first two games of their first-round series against the Lakers, who came into the series with a 39-43 record. First, just how hard it was for the Suns to get there. Vince Marotta, co-host of Bickley & Marotta: I remember so much of that run to the Finals in ’93. A history that almost no other team in the NBA can rival. No offense to the Diamondbacks, Cardinals or Coyotes, but a Suns title was always going to carry more weight than anyone else in this city. It’s a chance to close out all the “what-if” open tabs this team has racked up over the decades. A 26-year marriage, a 23-year-old son, a 20-year-old daughter and a 26-year career on the air in this market later, they are.Īs for what it means? It means the Suns have a chance to ending a hex that is the NBA’s version of the Red Sox or the Cubs. Of course we’ll be back.” And the Suns are. The day after the Paxson shot, the guy I was working for, the VP of program planning for CBS Sports, walked by my temporary cubicle and said, “Boy, that sucked for you,” and walked away. I was in New York City for an internship with CBS Sports. I remember watching every game of the Finals from a dorm room on the campus of NYU. I remember showing up at the original Majerle’s in downtown Phoenix five hours before tipoff of Game 3 versus the Sonics just to hold a table for me and my then-girlfriend (now wife). Watched it from the bar of the Woodlands Hotel in Flagstaff. Charles Barkley hit the shot over David Robinson to beat the Spurs the night before I graduated from NAU. I remember Paul Westphal’s famous guarantee that the Suns would win the opening 1993 series despite being down 2-0 in a best-of-five to the Lakers. What do you remember about the last time the Suns went to the NBA Finals in the 1993, and what does it mean for this team to finally make it back?ĭave Burns, co-host of Burns & Gamob: I remember … well shoot … I remember everything. So we asked those of us at Arizona Sports what the long wait between Phoenix’s NBA Finals appearances means to them. ![]() Maybe that’s why it was so shocking to watch this team, not far removed from bottom-dwelling incompetence, do so much beyond ending an 11-year playoff drought. ![]()
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